Andre the Giant was a pro-wrestling superstar. Chuck Wepner floored Muhammad Ali and inspired "Rocky." Together they drew nearly 33,000 fans to New York's Shea Stadium — but was it a real fight or was ...

What if Andre the Giant had won World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) 1991 Royal Rumble, as originally planned?

Wrestling promoters love epic clashes, and here’s the dream match we never got: The Undertaker versus Andre The Giant. Over the years, wrestlers and wrestling fans have embraced and enjoyed the ...

You don’t have to be a professional wrestling fan to recognize the name Andre the Giant. Born Andre Rene Roussimoff and raised in Molien, France, Andre the Giant grew from humble beginnings to become ...

BEVERLY HILLS – Say your prayers, eat your vitamins and … drink your beer? Clearly, it’s a new age of Hulkamania, but the line wrapping around Beverage Warehouse in Beverly Hills Wednesday afternoon ...

Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan said it’s difficult to explain Andre the Giant’s alcohol-drinking proficiency, but he did his best when telling a pair of epic tales about the late WWE legend. Andre the ...

Late pro wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Andre the Giant was very much literally larger-than-life at 7 ft. 4 in. Because of this he was the perfect foil for the bigger wrestlers like Hulk Hogan ...

Weighing as much as 4 fully grown adult men would never fly in Olympic-style wrestling but in WWE wrestling superstars of enormous body weight have gone ...

During the 1980s, taking away Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant was the biggest attraction in WWE as he was billed at 7′4″ and over 500 pounds. Many have tried to fill those shoes of the WWE Hall of Famer.

Few figures in pro wrestling history cast a shadow as large as Andre the Giant, whose influence is still felt more than 30 ...

André the Giant's billed height was 7 feet, 4 inches tall. That's 88 inches, or 223.52 centimeters. André the Giant, born André René Roussimoff, was a global icon and pro wrestling legend. Standing an ...